The Garden Minute: Rewilding, RHS Research and Rapidly Growing Rhubarb
☀️ Good morning Gardeners. Need a little Monday Motivation? Here's a round up of gardenspiration to set you up for the week ahead.
✂️🌱 Curated Cuttings
A round-up of tips, tricks and news snippets on all things garden-related.
👀 Nosy neighbours? Here’s some ways to protect privacy in your garden!
🪻 Gardeners urged to plant lavender this month
✂️ Wondering how best to prune lupins? Ideal Home has some advice
🔥 Want to avoid scorched leaves? Choose your watering time wisely!
🦋 Attract more butterflies to your garden with this £1.59 buy
🪴 RHS asks for gardeners’ successes and failures to plan for changing climate
Garden plant offer from Plant Drops today - Buy 3 x Bunny Tails grass for £7.99.
💬 Your tips & tricks
The little tips, tricks, and timesavers you use in your garden.
Perhaps you’ve found a new use for something old. Perhaps you accidently stumbled on something that’s saved you HOURS on a gardening task. Whatever it is that you now can’t live without in your garden, we’d love to hear about it. Drop us a comment.
☕ The Long Read
Down tools, grab a brew and get lost in a long read on your break
The English Farmers Who Harvest Rhubarb by Candlelight
The secret to the world’s sweetest rhubarb? Sealed sheds, total darkness and a little old-fashioned flair.
Yorkshire, England, is one of the few places in the world where rhubarb is harvested the old-fashioned way: by candlelight. Every November, after the first long frost, farmers transplant their crop into windowless heated sheds, plunging thousands of plants into total darkness. The stress triggers alarmingly rapid growth. Under the right conditions, rhubarb can grow more than an inch per day. That’s fast enough to hear it.
📱 Ones to watch
Spotlight on some of the gardening creators we’re loving this week
Want a peek behind the scenes of a 1930’s heritage allotment? You’re in luck! Homegrown.garden gives you just that with gardener Katrina sharing snippets of life in her Nottinghamshire space.
📍 Local news
From the weird to the wonderful. What’s happening in gardens around the UK?
📍 Harrogate RHS Harlow Carr among UK's most beautiful gardens
📍 New therapy garden opens in Surrey to help with mental health
📍 Blackpool in Bloom recieves surge of entries
📍 Cornwall has unveiled one of the UK’s most ambitious rewilding projects
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Happy gardening! Jess x
Please can you not include articles from publications which demand payment to read them. I would have liked to read today's one on lavender but can't. Thank you.